EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE IN ASIA†

In this article I draw attention to the galaxy of European buildings built over the last five centuries in Asia. I show how quickly and accurately European styles of the day were adopted in Asia, whether that style was Renaissance, Neoclassical, Gothic, Idiosyncratic Revivalist, or Modern. I argue that recent attention in Asia to architectural and urban preservation is itself of European origin. Although I suggest in conclusion that this architectural galaxy is part of an overwhelmingly one‐sided process of globalization, my primary focus remains on the buildings themselves as the residue of one culture diffusing across distant domains.     

AMBIDEXTROUS DALLAS*

ABSTRACT. Since its founding, Dallas, Texas has grown centrifugally. Since the 1990s, however, it has also grown centripetally, with developers building walkable, mixed‐use islands in the midst of metropolitan sprawl. This article surveys what amounts to a historic change of habit.